Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2008/10/27
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Howard - You have a really nice touch with this technique. For the most part they look just like nicely taken and cropped photos. The light in "SunrayVatican" is terrific. I'm not so sure the technique works as well there as it does in the other shots though some work with the perspective control in Photoshop might take care of it. That said these are really nice pictures. Aren't those hill towns magnificent? Regards, Dick off-list comments to r.s.taylor at comcast dot net please. On Oct 26, 2008, at 12:04 AM, Howard Cummer wrote: > Hi Luggers, > Last night I got to sleep in my own Hong Kong bed again after 162 > days. Filling the time in retirement sometimes feels like hard work! > After Photokina wife Esther and I traveled to Italy and France. I > took along my Novoflex pano equipment but lost the bushing that > sizes the bubble level platin from 1/2 to 3/8 so couldn't use the > damn thing on the tripod that I had brought. I just hauled all that > heavy weight around from one place to another. I used my M8 and > Nikon D700 as the mood struck me - the M8 for nights and interiors > and the Nikon for just about everything else. Its better high ISO > performance compensated for the slower lenses in most cases. Next > time (if there is a next time given what is happening to my > retirement portfolio!) I will take only one system - likely the > Nikon as it is the most versatile. From what I saw at Photokina I > may add some Zeiss lenses to the Nikon kit if and when they are > available in HK. > I have posted a few panos in a new folder in the LUG gallery. Please > have a look. > > http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Howard+Cummer/Photos+from+Europe/ > > http://tinyurl.com/5ucctl > > These were taken mostly with the M8 and the 24 Elmarit in vertical > format and then stitched together in CS2. One is taken with the > Canon G9 - and a couple with the Nikon D700 and the 50 f1.4. One > problem with the M8, not experienced with the D700, was dust spots > on the sensor which showed up when I stopped down to increase depth > of field. That required quite a bit of spotting in Photoshop not > required with the Nikon photos due to the 700's auto cleaning > feature. I have one persistent spot on the M8 sensor which is going > to require wet cleaning sometime this week. > Enjoy, > Cheers > Howard > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information